Abstract:

Audio-visual translation is relatively a new field in terms of translation studies and can be considered a paradigm under the umbrella of translation studies. In order to contribute to the aforementioned literature, in this study, the English original and Turkish subtitles of the comedy drama series "Orange Is The New Black", shown for seven seasons between 2013-2019, were analyzed. In the series in question, the emotional events of female prisoners, their experiences, their communication with one another, their love, their changes and their past lives are narrated in detail. Starting from the question of to what extent the plot in the original series has been preserved or has it been preserved in the Turkish subtitle, the strategies applied in the Turkish version were exemplified from the first season of the series and it was tried to describe whether a source or target-oriented approach was adopted in the translation. In the evaluation, it was found that the Turkish subtitles were mostly created faithfully, especially when compared to the dubbed version. This shows the availability of the adequate translation, one of the initial norms by Toury, in the Turkish subtitle. Finally, possible reasons behind the application of the source oriented approach in the translated version were expressed.

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